The University of Clayhurst

[harris14]

great work but it would be cool if you put in some super modern building to have a good mix

[will62russ]

JBSimio - The fieldhouse is "just what the doctor ordered."   It fits right in with the overall concept/design of the rest of your wonderful campus buildings.   

[qwerty123]

JBSimio- When will you release more lots/BAT to the BSC exchange?

[Andreas]

JBSimio- When will you release more lots/BAT to the BSC exchange?

Once they're done.

[JBSimio]

Once they're done.

Or possibly a day or two after that...   

[manchou]

It's wonderful ! You had do a beautiful work, i love that ! 

[will62russ]

Or possibly a day or two after that...  

Great to know.   I'll mark my calendar for that important day.   

[tahill79]

Hey JB,
I went back through this thread to see if you had a list of buildings you were adding to Clayhurst.  I couldnt find any. 

Thanks
Matt

[canyonjumper]

Or possibly a day or two after that...  

Great to know.   I'll mark my calendar for that important day.   

We'll mark it when we know the date for that important day

[harris14]

what happened to the progress on the school pack volume five? The schools were cool lookin

[girlfromverona]

The field house looks awesome! Will be a great addition to this set. 

[Neekie2212]

I really love this creation.   

I can't wait to see what's next. Keep up the good work!

[SimNation]

Looking good so far JBsimio.

[JBSimio]

I seem to have disappeared again...    Sorry about that!  I won't bother trying to explain or make excuses here... we'll just act like I posted yesterday OK?   

Ignoring the field house for a bit (I'm glad so many of you like it though!), why don't we get back to Expansion Pack #1 and see how things are coming along?  I'm pretty sure I showed all but one of the finished dormitories for the next pack.  The final dorm is not finished yet, but it shouldn't take long to wrap it up.  In the meantime, I now have all three of the new classroom buildings completely finished.  Have a look:

DeBussy School of Engineering - 5x5 lot, gives a larger than average boost to I-HT


Matthew Edgren Law School - 7x4 lot, doesn't do anything special beyond adding normal university properties (more on that in a minute)


Swan Centre for Business Studies - 5x5 lot, gives a larger boost to CO$$ and also a boost to CO$$$ (not included in standard university caps)


That's what they all look like.  I tried to make it so these would give different cap relief depending on what the main "purpose" of each building was.  So the school of engineering gives a bigger boost to high tech industry and the business school gives a boost to commercial office demand, and the law school... well... I'm not sure yet.  I wanted it to mimic the Maxis city hall, courthouse, etc.  However, in researching just what those buildings do, I learned that they don't actually do much.  They basically have some higher park and landmark effects, but not much else.  So, I'm not quite sure what I'll do to set the law school apart just yet.  We'll come back to that soon...

Until then,
JB

[thingfishs]

Looking great

I particularly like the night lights in the glass roofed section of the Debussy building.

[JBSimio]

Thingfishs:  Thank you!

I didn't really feel like modding the last few buildings yet today, so I decided to make some additional quad lots instead.  I know there is still one request for additional path pieces, which I will get to soon... but if anyone else has noticed gaps while playing with this, now is the time to say so! 

First... I made a couple new versions of the 7x9 quad lot.  The only real reason for this is so that you can have the Fuhrmann Academic Center on one side (as the original was designed for) and either the front or back of the new Law School on the other.  Unfortunately, that meant two new lots... but here they are:



To be honest, I really didn't change anything except the connecting paths and what few props needed to move because of that.

Since the first pack, I had been wanting to do a few lots with SimGoober's ponds as well... so I made three different ones.  Not sure how useful these might be to everyone, but it seemed like a nice way to create more "informal" areas on campus.







The smaller image in the corner is purposely left blank to better show the layouts.  The full images have whatever props were showing at that particular moment.  Like all the campus lots, these all have a wide variety of people coming and going throughout the day... so don't worry if they happen to look a bit empty here as it just means that I was too impatient to wait for things to show up.

JB

[Battlecat]

These are great additions!  I really like how the pond lots look.

[canyonjumper]

Those look great Jon! Looking forward to their release!

           -Jordan

[TiFlo]

I concur.  
And the ponds do indeed add some character. I've been on campuses vast enough that there even was -albeit small- a river going through.

[CabraBuitre]

Very nice!  If I could make one suggestion for another pond lot... perhaps one with a prairie or weed area (perhaps a reclaimed area or an area necessitated by new expansion or destruction of wetlands, or something like that...)

My grad school has an area like that and I've seen them at several other colleges too.